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Chris Cooper

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PhD, Assistant Professor @ Waseda University. From Yorkshire, been in Japan since 2010, interested in #corpuslinguistics, #machinelearning, #NLP... www.researchgate.net/profile/Christ…

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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.' Interesting opinions in here, maybe he is right, but the 45-minute oral exam he suggests would be difficult to implement in many university contexts. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I appreciate people who publish one good paper a year. Thank you to the moderates.
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
3rd and final conference of September in Fukuoka. Ichiran was right next to my hotel, so...
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
CrisperWhisper apparently transcribes audio verbatim, e.g. "[um] so we we need to, to reschedule the th- thursday meeting to [uh] march third at nine thirty [laughter]". I wonder how well it works on L2 learner data? github.com/nyrahealth/C...
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GitHub - nyrahealth/CrisperWhisper: Controllable Transcription. Verbatim ( every, filler, pause, stutter, vocal sound) , or intended ( what the speaker meant to say, optimized for readability) with wo...
Controllable Transcription. Verbatim ( every, filler, pause, stutter, vocal sound) , or intended ( what the speaker meant to say, optimized for readability) with word-level timestamps. - nyrahealth...
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Really interesting interview with Prof. Christopher Manning about how it would be good for society if AI companies let universities investigate their models, how machine learning is far less efficient than human learning among other things... youtu.be/IHfyCtE0FDQ?...
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Why Universities Must Evaluate Frontier AI | Chris Manning
YouTube video by MTS
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
open.spotify.com/episode/4Vke... This week I welcomed Dr. Christopher Nicklin to @in_citations podcast to talk about mixed effects models in vocabulary research. Other topics: Chris’ upcoming stats textbook Oil painting Coordinating at Temple University It was a fun conversation 1/3
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#205 - Nicklin, C., McLean, S., & Vitta, J. P. (2026). Contrasting fixed- and mixed-effects modeling in vocabulary research. Language Learning, 76(1), 211–248.
Lost in Citations · Episode
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If you want to feel optimistic about the future with AI, listen to Demis Hassabis youtu.be/rDteJAuKiBI?...
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Sir Demis Hassabis on Creativity and AI | Will AI Change How We Create? | Hannah Fry
YouTube video by Royal Society of Arts
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Biggest takeaway from this documentary. The Google DeepMind main guy made the little people in the Theme Park game!? (it's referred to as AI in the doc) youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ?...
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The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection
YouTube video by Google DeepMind
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Heading back to Tokyo after a great APCLC in Toyama. 白えびもちょっといただきました
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Poster is up at APCLC and ready to go (in 6 hours)
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sounds interesting... Uncertainty-Aware Bayesian Calibration for CEFR-Level Item Analysis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Uncertainty-aware Bayesian calibration for CEFR-level item analysis
This paper presents an uncertainty-aware Bayesian framework for CEFR-level item calibration and quality assurance in language assessment systems. Unli…
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nice reference to Swimmy in the first plenary by Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani at APCLC in Toyama
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
2nd out of 3 September conferences, in Toyama. Straight on the Toyama Black Ramen 😋
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The APCLC schedule is finally out smartconf.jp/content/apcl...
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Program List
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Interesting interview with Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani on (the lack of) uncertainty in AI models youtu.be/tBjgCj_dGZM?... Somewhat related, I've been considering whether a more accurate or more calibrated model (confidence matches predictions) is better for CEFR writing prediction
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The mathematics of AI uncertainty
YouTube video by Google DeepMind
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My slides from today's symposium at the JAECS #corpuslinguistics conference, I messed the QR code up that I shared during the talk! Check them out if you're interested www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) (some) Trends in Corpus-based English Language Education Research
PDF | This talk focuses on three areas in which corpus-based research has increased in English language education in recent years: the Common European... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
First of 3 September conferences, in Kitakyushu
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
So many corpora available here: www.ortolang.fr/market/corpora
ortolang.fr
ORTOLANG
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Corpus Linguistics 2027 @cl2027.info · 19/08/2026
We are pleased to finally announce… 📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2027 Venice, Italy | 12th-16th July 2027 CfP details: www.cl2027.info/call-for-pap... Deadline: 8th January 2027 🔗 All links in bio 🔁 please share widely! #CL2027
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#CL2027 - Call for Papers
Adaptation and Adaptability in Corpus Linguistics
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
open.spotify.com/episode/6Osg... On this week’s Lost in Citations podcast, I welcomed Dr. Ute Römer-Barron, prof. at Georgia State University to talk about the 2024 paper: How do constructions with modal verbs develop in second language learners of English (1/3)
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#203 - Römer-Barron, U. (2024). How do constructions with modal verbs develop in second language learners of English? Journal of Second Language Studies, 7(2), 198–226.
Lost in Citations · Episode
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Anthropic's Chloe Lubinski explains how AI works (in 14 minutes) youtu.be/aBUniZHgCnE?...
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Anthropic's Chloe Lubinski explains how AI works (in 14 minutes)
YouTube video by Alliance for Responsible Citizenship
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
There are so many scoping reviews recently, I'm patiently waiting for the first scoping review of scoping reviews
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Since when has the Learn mode in Quizlet not been free! And are there any free alternatives? (ideally with games/gamification elements)
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Desk rejected after 1 hour and 16 minutes...has anyone done better than that? 😅
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Tove Larsson @tovelarsson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Just out: Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing: Building Cumulative Knowledge in Corpus Linguistics (Larsson & Hancock, 2026) Download for free until August 11: doi.org/10.1017/9781... On methods for evaluating empirically informed hypotheses. @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org
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Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing
Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Interview with Nick Ellis from about 7 years ago about his 2002 Frequency SSLA Article: youtu.be/LpKvMBPHV-k?...
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An interview with Nick Ellis for Studies in Second Language Acquisition
YouTube video by Cambridge University Press
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I wonder if there is much research out there on the metaphors AI uses, I seem to get a lot of "knobs" and recently "sidecars" from Claude
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
100 words is too short for an abstract!!!
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I like the (relatively new?) Sketch Engine AI search for quick searches, e.g. "break collocates associated with the human body (e.g. arm, wrist, bone)" CQL: [ws("break-v", ".*", "(arm|wrist|bone|leg|hand|finger|toe|foot|neck|back|rib|nose|skull|ankle|elbow|hip|shoulder)-n")]
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
so many PDFs to read, so little time 🤓
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John Benjamins Publishing Company @johnbenjamins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
👓 Have you encountered our new format 𝗔𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗦 yet? 💡 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝, 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙟𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙡𝙚! Applied: www.benjamins.com/catalog/aspal Corpus: www.benjamins.com/catalog/aspcl Pragmatics: www.benjamins.com/catalog/aspp TS: www.benjamins.com/catalog/aspts
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Butter consumption correlates with wind power generated in the United States 🫠... And other correlations www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...
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Spurious Correlations
Correlation is not causation: thousands of charts of real data showing actual correlations between ridiculous variables.
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Day 2 and got over the rejection rage🤬 enough to start on revisions☺️. Still think they could have given us major revisions instead of reject...
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Rejected 😭. Shouldn't have checked my email just before the England game!
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Moore, Caines & Buttery (2026) Multi-component student writing profiles for expert-aligned automated evaluation of English learner essays aclanthology.org/2026.bea-1.39/ This looks very interesting, using multiple drafts from learners in the Write & Improve Corpus
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Multi-component student writing profiles for expert-aligned automated evaluation of English learner essays.
Russell Moore, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery. Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2026). 2026.
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Claude's always taking back "I should search past conversations to check whether I actually did help write this notebook, since I don't have direct memory of that and shouldn't just accept the framing uncritically" trust me you did+the part you added was wrong & needs correcting
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Finally got my name on the door after almost 3 months
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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
How do emojis & homoglyphs affect corpus tokenisation, and why does it matter? 🧐 OUT NOW: @matteodic.bsky.social explores how small discrepancies in tokenisation can distort linguistic analysis and undermine data fidelity 🔍 doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Bayesian teaching enables probabilistic reasoning in large language models (Qiu et al., 2026) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bayesian teaching enables probabilistic reasoning in large language models - Nature Communications
LLMs fail to update beliefs in a Bayesian way but can be taught to do so by mimicking a normative Bayesian model. This training yields better predictions and transferable reasoning skills across tasks...
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"I'll clone the repo directly in the sandbox", OK I'll leave you to it Claude...
Brian Wilson playing piano in his sandbox
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Prof Yeh, AI by Hand "I see a few benefits. One is that I can only go at the humanly possible speed of my writing. I cannot go any faster than I can write. Second students can only learn at a humanly possible speed. They can only follow how much I write." youtu.be/BAgxGp2WEu4?...
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A CS Professor on Why Slow Learning Wins in the AI Era | CU Boulder, Tom Yeh
YouTube video by EO
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
AI for smell... "For the first time, you can turn any word, image, or idea into an unforgettable, custom fragrance..." 🫢 www.osmo.ai
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Home - Osmo
Create custom fragrances faster with Osmo. AI-powered fragrance development and end-to-end manufacturing built for brands to launch fine fragrance with speed, precision, and creativity.
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
*awaiting reviewer assignment has reached the 3 month mark 🫣
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Just trying a local LLM for the first time (Gemma 4 with LM Studio). For some reason running a local LLM on your own machine feels more like a Frankenstein than using one of the online chatbot LLMs 🧟‍♂️
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Looks interesting, research utilising the English Grammar Profile and corpus query patterns Linking textbook grammar input to writing accuracy in exam-oriented EF... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Linking textbook grammar input to writing accuracy in exam-oriented EFL systems: A CEFR-B1, corpus-based study
In exam-oriented EFL systems, textbooks often function as the practical syllabus for high-stakes writing. This study examined whether corpus-derived p…
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Abstract submitted for The 6th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC2026) in Toyama smartconf.jp/content/apcl...
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HOME
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Jenni Räikkönen @jenniraikkonen.fi · 10/06/2026
Researchers using corpus-based approaches to the study of English: Welcome to the ICAME48 conference in Helsinki in May 2027! Follow our BlueSky account @icame48.bsky.social and our website (see the link in comments) for updates. The CfP will soon be published. #ICAME48
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
My interview with Prof. Mizumoto has been re-released in the "legends series" of Lost in Citations www.podbean.com/ew/pb-kn3xm-... The tool we talked about was later developed into Auto Error Analyzer langtech.jp/autoerror/ A paper about it was published in SSLA www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Auto Error Analyzer
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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Why do links to the IRIS database in papers never seem to work, they just seem to go to the IRIS homepage 🤔
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